We in Maine are very fortunate to live in one of the most spectacular outdoor playgrounds on Earth. Whether it’s a blissful canoe trip up the Allagash Wilderness Waterway, hiking a scenic stretch along the Appalachian Trail, or watching a wondrous sunrise from Cadillac Mountain in Acadia National Park — those are moments of aliveness […]

By Ed Rogers The Washington Post The second night of the first 2020 Democratic presidential debate got confusing early and stayed there. From the start, it appeared as if the debate had been underway before we tuned in. Almost every candidate was in the policy weeds from the beginning, and the debate got off to […]

By Jennifer Rubin The Washington Post Thursday’s debate provided the first time to see several top presidential candidates — former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg — as well as an assortment of lesser known and, in some cases, improbable figures face […]

NEW YORK — Given President Trump’s mean-spirited and often bigoted attitudes on immigration, it pains me to say that he is right that the United States faces a crisis with its asylum system. Democrats might hope that the out-of-control situation at the southern border undermines Trump’s image among his base as a tough guy who […]

WASHINGTON — Sen. Kamala Harris of California may have been the breakout winner of this week’s Democratic presidential debates, but there was one clear loser: the American taxpayer. These were the most expensive presidential debates in American history. Never have so many candidates proposed to spend so much. In the first debate, NBC anchor Savannah […]

By Hugh Hewitt Special to The Washington Post Thursday’s Democratic debate was superior in every respect to Wednesday’s. It seems there is an advantage to being on the panel on the second evening: a significant opportunity to scout out the journalists asking questions, to survey the audience and to gauge the look and feel of […]

The Trump administration thinks appealing to North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un by dangling promises of prosperity in front of him if he agrees to change his ways is the path to peace on the Korean Peninsula. So far there have been no agreements to build a Trump resort and Kim has made no effort to […]

In a previous column I referred to the hidden migrant camps in remote locations in Panama that are funneling middle easterners and other migrants through Costa Rica and on northward to the U.S. border. It is referred to as “controlled flow.” What has been happening in recent weeks has suddenly highlighted the clearly organized criminal […]

Michelle Obama made the cover of Vogue magazine three times. Hillary Clinton not only graced the cover in her first lady days but also, as the candidate running against Donald Trump in 2016, received the magazine’s first and (so far) only political endorsement. Conspicuously missing is the current first lady, Melania Trump. She would seem […]